Overview:
Ho Chi Minh City currently has more than 1.9 million people living in rural areas, but only nearly 50,000 of these people work in the fields of agriculture, forestry and fishery. In order to increase the value of agricultural production, Ho Chi Minh City is implementing many solutions to develop modern urban agriculture, striving to become a seed supply center for the southern region and the whole country.
Changing strategy post Covid:
Mr. Lam Ngoc Tuan, Director of Tuan Ngoc Agricultural Cooperative (Thu Duc city), said that during the peak of the epidemic, the supply of vegetables to large supermarkets was being slowed down because customers could not Going into supermarkets to buy like before the epidemic, Tuan Ngoc Cooperative has actively stopped supplying contracts to supermarkets, focusing on small stores located near residential areas, with easy access to vegetables to each individual. more households.
Accordingly, Tuan Ngoc Cooperative has converted from concentrated planting with a large number of vegetables to growing a variety of vegetables that can be grown on the same existing hydroponic system. At the same time, focus on linking clean food stores in the city to provide vegetables for each small area and directly to customers. Tuan Ngoc Cooperative has actively recruited collaborators to deliver vegetables directly to apartment buildings to increase consumption, therefore increasing revenue.
Aim for future:
Agriculture in Ho Chi Minh City and surrounding provinces will no longer have boundaries
Mr. Dinh Minh Hiep, who has just received the task of leading the agricultural sector in Ho Chi Minh City, said:
We are aiming to build 51 programs and projects under the Resolution of the 11th Party Congress of the City Party Committee emphasizing the agricultural sector, seedling program and high-tech agriculture. The program will focus on two issues: Ho Chi Minh City will be a center for high quality plant and animal varieties to develop a specific agricultural production industry; At the same time, it shows the role of producing high-quality seeds to serve the country and the whole region such as Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Myanmar.
It is already that agriculture will be related to land, so it is necessary to calculate the harmony between agricultural land and other land fund in the general development of the City. We hope that the city needs to define more clearly the planning to form a high-tech agricultural production area and orient to help people boost production investment. In addition, there should be a support mechanism for businesses as well as cooperatives, because high-tech agricultural production is required to accumulate land to go into large production. Ho Chi Minh City also needs to have a close connection with all surrounding provinces in order to deploy high-tech agricultural application models with a view of sticking between the city's agriculture and the agriculture of other provinces. still boundary. That is creating a common development motivation for the whole city as well as other provinces…